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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
250views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 16 days ago
Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
STOC
1997
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
15 years 1 months ago
An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
IVC
2008
141views more  IVC 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Segmentation of color images via reversible jump MCMC sampling
Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) is a recent method which makes it possible to construct reversible Markov chain samplers that jump between parameter subspaces of...
Zoltan Kato
KDD
2004
ACM
170views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Estimating the size of the telephone universe: a Bayesian Mark-recapture approach
Mark-recapture models have for many years been used to estimate the unknown sizes of animal and bird populations. In this article we adapt a finite mixture mark-recapture model i...
David Poole
NAA
2000
Springer
125views Mathematics» more  NAA 2000»
15 years 1 months ago
Matrix Computations Using Quasirandom Sequences
Abstract. The convergence of Monte Carlo method for numerical integration can often be improved by replacing pseudorandom numbers (PRNs) with more uniformly distributed numbers kno...
Michael Mascagni, Aneta Karaivanova